He's had an op to plate his collarbone in Barcelona and is rumoured to be returning, hoping to race on Saturday. I was watching Speedway yesterday, Tia Woffenden racing a week after a similar op. It took me over 6 months to recover from mine. Hard.
I was mountain bike racing three weeks after my initial broken collar bone. Should really have waited as it pulled apart almost straight away and caused such problems I ended up with plates.
The BBC web site says he hopes to return for the next race, but he won't be at Assen: BBC Sport - Jorge Lorenzo breaks collarbone in high-speed Assen crash
The are DD racers who have raced with a broken collar bone 2 weeks after...hell Dave Jenkins poped his shoulder, gaffa taped it back as the medics didnt know, raced, got some good points and sorted it when he got home...
Update from MCN. Lorenzo is recovering post op in Spain, one titanium plate & 8 screws later: Jorge Lorenzo completes successful collarbone surgery - | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP News | MotoGP Results | MCN
Yes hes gone back but surely it will be support only . You never know though .Lorenzo flies back to Assen after surgery - Latest sport news
I reckon he may race, just to finish in the points. Lots of drugs, strap-a-dictomy on the shoulder and he'll be away. Top 10 easy. Unless Bautista mistakes his bike for Rossi's lol
You might well be right . After all tom sykes lost the wsb tittle by 1/2 a point . Which I didnt agree with at all by the way . A race is a race whether its 1 lap 5 laps or 50 laps you cant have half a race so how they came up with half points i`ll never know.
And he needs to keep as few points behind pedders as he can. And look how well others have done with collar bones, not done one myself but seems once plated its good as new pretty quickly, given the number who race straight away
He'll race if he can, think part of the medical test is to do a press up, ouch! I've raced 2 weeks after having one plated, I nearly fainted when the race adrenalin went down and that was only on a 250 with 82bhp not a Moto GP monster. It feels ok if you just laze around but not if you try to do anything at all physical with it. He'll get prescription painkillers but nothing that would fail the drug test rules, they're hard men. OGR
Remember Edwards drugged up the eyeballs at Silverstone the other year? Bust collarbone and raced, year later Cal exactly the same, then we've got the Lowes twins done the same, my guess Jorge will be tree if he gets the nod
Eurosport said today that he has to complete the morning warm up to be able to take his place on the grid. That is written into the rules but not sure how many laps he has to do. Might be a big ask to do warm up, start 12th on the grid and stay 15th or higher and get points. If it rains that might help him but not if he ends up on the deck again.
Seal a new engine, start from pit lane, get a few points, pass all the caravan ducati's along with a few CRT bikes!
The guy is a monster. Fair play to anybody who gets on a bike a few hours after a crash/operation. These guys don't get enough credit
Well he's been declared fit to race, will start from 12th on the grid. thats a champion right there, good on him.
